Letter from serial killer: Victims were ‘criminals,’ he was ‘saving’ Kala Brown

Letter from serial killer: Victims were ‘criminals,’ he was ‘saving’ Kala Brown

Todd Kohlhepp writes letter to New York Post

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Updated: 10:56 AM EDT Sep 11, 2017

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WEBVTT MIKE MCCORMICK IS LIVE ANDLOCAL IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY WITHMORE.>> IF YOU TAKE A LOOK BEHIND ME,YOU CAN SEE THE CONTAINER WHEREKAYLA BROWN SPENT TO MONTHS INCHAINS.INVESTIGATORS OPENED UP THATCONTAINER FO US, A TRACTORTRAILER BELONGING TO CALL HAVEIS INSIDE THAT BIG METALCONTAINER.THAT IS NOW ON PROPERTY OWNED BYSPARTANBURG COUNTY AND IS NOLONGER ON HIS PROPERTY INWOODRUFF.IN THE BACK OF THAT CONTAINER,YOU CAN SEE WHERE SHE WAS KEPT,A BLANKET, ON A CORD HELPED HIDETHAT AREA.IT IS VERY HOT IN THERE, IT ISVERY DARK, EVEN IN THE DAYLIGHTAND AFTER THE STORM CAME THROUGHTHIS AFTERNOON AND PULLED THETEMPERATURE OUTSIDE, AFTER HERRESCUE, HE CONFESSED TO KILLINGSEVEN PEOPLE.FOUR OF THE MOTORS HAPPENED ATSUPERBIKE MOTORSPORTS.LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLDINVESTIGATORS AFTER IS ARRESTAND THEN YOU WILL HEAR WHAT THESHERIFF TOLD US TODAY ABOUT THATCASE.>> I WILL SAY THAT ONCE IENGAGED, IT IS LIKE A VIDEOGAME.YOU ARE FOCUS -- YOU HAVE BEENTHERE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKINGABOUT.>> I TOLD YOU WE WOULD SOLVETHIS CASE.I WAS WE COULD HAVE DONE IT 13SECONDS -- NOT 13 YEARS, ITWASN'T UP TO US, WE HAD NOEVIDENCE TO GO ON.WE HAD SOME EVIDENCE, THEORIESTHOUGHTS.>> THE SHERIFF SAYS HE DECIDES-- STANDS BEHIND HIS DECISION TOGIVE BROWN THE REWARD MONEY FORTHE SUPERBIKE MOTORSPORTS CASE.-HE TOLD US THAT HE IS STILL IN

Letter from serial killer: Victims were ‘criminals,’ he was ‘saving’ Kala Brown

Serial killer Todd Kohlhepp, who murdered seven people in the Upstate and held Kala Brown captive in a shipping container, wrote a letter to the New York Post last week in which he claimed all his victims were “criminals” and that he was trying to “save” Brown.

Kohlhepp, 46, was arrested last fall after deputies rescued Brown from the shipping container on his property in Woodruff.

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Kohlhepp pleaded guilty to killing Brown's boyfriend, Charlie Carver, and to the 2003 murders of Beverly Guy, Scott Ponder, Brian Lucas and Chris Sherbert at Superbike Motorsports, and Meagan and Johnny Coxie, who were killed eight months before Carver.

The Post reported Saturday that Kohlhepp’s letter, mailed to the newspaper, said that Brown was as “big a criminal” as Kohlhepp, and that she wasn’t raped. He didn’t provide any factual information to corroborate his claims, the Post reported.

The real estate agent turned serial killer told the newspaper that he had put Brown in the shipping container because he “didn’t want to hurt her, refused to turn her over to someone else who would and was buying time while I figured out a way to resolve this non-violently.”

The NY Post reported that Kohlhepp also claimed Super Bike Motorsports was a “chop shop” with “$80,000 is cash sitting in (a) safe.”

Kohlhepp raped a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint nearly 30 years ago. He served 15 years in prison in Arizona. He was released in 2001 when he was 30. He applied for and received his real estate license in Spartanburg County five years later.

Kohlhepp pleaded guilty to the seven murders in exchange for seven consecutive life sentences.